The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1887-09-23
TnE DRAM.sHoP BURDENS BUSINESS
WITH HEAVY TAXES.

Business IL always better, other things
being equal, wheat IL most lightly taxed.
Heavy taxes drive away business. Take
your tax bin and scan is items
Item 1. For sehools.---"A juss, fair tar,
you say, and pay II willingly. Aspeopls
grow more lnteillgent,prosperity increases
and property IL safer.
Item ,. For Gre department. Just thlnk
a moment. How many hres occur from
drunken carelessness. A victim fresh from
the dram.shop ssaggers into barn or cut
house and tries TO light his pipe. A blase
starts, and before Il is put out, Thousands
Of dollars lost, and 80 mueh expense 10 the
department. MARX agoodly proportion oI
your ere tar TO the eredl. Of the dram shop
Item 3. For poor. Ninety out Of every
one hundred paupers and occasional psoE
are 80 because Of the dram.shop. Marx
ninety per cent OF your poor tag to that
institution.
Item 4, For police. Whai constituted
the main work Of the police in our towns
and cities Looking after the dram.shops
and their products. vIneland. with twelve
thousand people, pays only one hundred
dollars per year for police. Why Vine,
land has had no dram-shop for the last
twenty -one years. Mark large part Of
ycur tar for police to the dram-shop.
Item s. For criminal expenses. Whenee
come our criminals ! The experience ol
Judges. Sherifis, and grand jaries, and the
Investigations of parliaments and iegisla.
tures, go TO prove that seventy Ave per
cent of all punishable criminals are grad.
utaies Of the dram-shop. Credit large
part Of your tax for criminal expenses to
that institution Now. what have you
You have the fact staring you in the face
that the dram-shop helps business By lay.
Ing upon II At least quarters Of al
the taxes Il pays. Should business sub
nit TO this great burden just that here and
there dratn-shop might get lazy iiv.
Ing
But worse still Every dram seller l.
an able bodied panper who lives of Of the
earnings and business Of the country.
Suppose Jones puts up bar, stands behind
II from January 10 December takes In
two thousand dollars, and gives out MOTH
Ing but brown paper. Who has kept Jones
and his family The earnera and business
men Of this country. He has produced
no.hing and given nothing valuable in re-
turn for the two thousand dollars. lie 10
an sble-bodied pauper.
Suppose Smith sets up bar stands be-
hind Il from January to December takes
In two thousand doIlars,And gives out moth
Ing but whisky. Who has kept Smith and
his famiIyIf The earners and business men
Of the country. lie has produced nothing,
and given nothing valuable in return for
the two thousand dollars. lie IL an able
bodied pauper.
What 10 the difference between the twoi
Jones was consideratc enough to take his
living for no return, and harmed nobody.
Smith was not contented with simply TAX
ing his living but harmed everybody he
could. II he had given brown paper In.
stead Of whisky, he would have been as
innocent man as Jones. Jones was a
harmless pauper Smith was destructive
Pauper--that is all the difference
sit good for the business OF this coun-
try that II has to supporter thousand able.
bodied men and their families, and, In adj
dition, to bear the burden Of taxation and
ruin they impose